| 单词 | lawless |
| 释义 | lawless adjective uk/ˈlɔː.ləs/us/ˈlɑː.ləs/notcontrolledbylaws, orillegal: 不受法律控制的，无法无天的；违法的Thefilmis set in a lawlesscitysometimein thefuture.这部影片以未来某个不受法律控制的城市为背景。 Legal & illegal
lawless| American Dictionarylawless adjective[not gradable] us/ˈlɔ·ləs/lawlessadjective[not gradable](RULE)notpermittedbylawor notobeyingthelaw;illegal: Theterritorywasoncespeckledwithranchesand lawlesstowns. Examplesoflawlesslawless The military replaced the rule of law with rule by inherentlylawlessdecree-law. From theCambridge English Corpus Such a society transforms individuals who in a state of nature were amoral,lawless, atomized units into moral beings. From theCambridge English Corpus Undefended andlawlessrefugee camps create security problems too. From theCambridge English Corpus The interest you cherish islawlessand unconsecrated. From theCambridge English Corpus They are also romanticized in folktales as fierce,lawless, and sometimes heroic. From theCambridge English Corpus By confronting evil andlawlessregimes, we do not create a problem, we reveal a problem. From theCambridge English Corpus She recorded that the common had become a wild andlawlessplace. From theCambridge English Corpus For a monarchy to degenerate into tyranny was to enslave to that tyrant'slawlesspassions the reason not only of his subjects, but of himself. From theCambridge English Corpus At the same time, thelawlessactivities of the garimpeiros are also mainly those of desperate people pushed by conscienceless political and economic forces beyond their control. From theCambridge English Corpus Leslie responds that experiences inlawless, haywire worlds are among the many experiences not worth having. From theCambridge English Corpus Swinburne says elsewhere that (1) can be refuted by the counterexamples of alawlessuniverse or a universe that is partlylawless. From theCambridge English Corpus That, however, was not his style, in part because he was a cautious man and knew that such a reckless, 'lawless' style would cost him sooner or later. From theCambridge English Corpus As the century closed, women writers were, in a sense, returned to the house, after their brief wanderings in thelawlesszone between poetry and prose. From theCambridge English Corpus Hobbes believed that the state of nature waslawlessbecause it was impossible to find in it any criteria of right and wrong that could be enforced. From theCambridge English Corpus It is an experience which pushes people further out of legal society and towards thelawlessfringes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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